A Book of Centuries (BC/AD Edition)

A blank timeline notebook for keeping a Charlotte Mason-style Book of Centuries. Each spread covers a stretch of time: the right-hand page has spa
ce for dates and notes, the left is blank for drawing an event or object from that period. The method is the point. A child enters history themsel
ves instead of receiving it, and every date they meet in a book, a museum, or a documentary goes onto the spread where it belongs, next to everyth
ing else from that era. The Pharaohs, the Romans, and the Vikings stop being separate school units and start standing in relation to one another,
which is the part a textbook chapter cannot do. Kept over several years it becomes a record of what one particular child actually learned, in thei
r own hand. The spans tighten as history gets closer. Three spreads for prehistory, then 1,000 years per spread from 6,000 to 3,000 BC, 100 years
per spread from 2000 BC to 1600 AD, 50 years per spread to 1800, 20 years per spread to 1900, then 10 years per spread from 1901 onwards. 158 page
s, 8.5 x 11 inches. Sold in softcover, hardcover, and digital, in either BC/AD or BCE/CE dating.

We picked this because it turns history from something kids are asked to remember into something they can slowly build, draw, and make their own. Very popular amongst homeschooling families!